By Lasisi Olagunju My literature teacher told me that situational irony is a fire station burning down, or a Babaláwo dying of Mágùn. Some 40 years...
By Festus Adedayo At the risk of being labeled thanatophobic – a preoccupation with death or its anxiety – the grim reality is that, last Tuesday,...
Tunde Odesola It’s my third day in the serene city of Ilorin, where no fly has perched on my gleamy spacecraft, nor has anyone come near...
By Suyi Ayodele When last week, Professor Ango Abdullahi threatened that “the North is watching”, what did he mean? You must love the professor of agronomy...
By Lasisi Olagunju Who killed Dele Giwa? Who was Gloria Okon and where is she today? How did David Mark accurately predict in 1994 that Sani...
By Festus Adedayo There was territorial tension in Nigeria last week. Like in the famous fable where animals gathered in the forest to delineate their individual...
Tunde Odesola Clad in a silver-colour spacesuit like Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, I boarded my shuttle of prose –...
By Tony Abolo It was widely circulated. The statement by Senator Monday Okpebholo at the welcoming of Hon. Marcus Onobun back into the APC in Uromi...
By Suyi Ayodele How should a king react to an in-your-face abuse by his son’s schoolmate? An altercation on a football field led to a physical...
By Lasisi Olagunju Each time this country discounts tribe and tongue, region and religion, it wins. Nigeria’s stunning victory in the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations...